Species Grammostola pulchra

[Nico]

This is an old coat. Her last molt was 8-1-04. A molt is around the corner, we can't wait. ;P


PS Although her fangs are long enough to raise the hair on the back of your neck, she's just a big ole sweetie.

How long did it take her to get to that size ?
And i thoud u have to keep them nice and moist ?

 

[nowhereman]

How long did it take her to get to that size ?
And i thoud u have to keep them nice and moist ?

Ohhh about 4 years ! I'd say a sling a little more moisture wouldn't hurt. At this size dry is good. If her substrate is damp she'll climb the walls and stay there. A water dish to drink from does the job.
There's a pic of this in our gallery.

 

[delta]

of course it is, but not when she doesn't like the cricket you just gave her

enjoy

 

[ass0mbracao]

Just wait till she turns a deep, shiny, velvety black... pictures do NOT do this species justice!! Good choice... what others do you keep?

Welcome to the boards.

-Kelly

EDIT: Oooh, I just saw your post in the announcements forum... GRAMMOSTOLA IHERINGI!!!! I am so super jealous! What a gorgeous spider... rarely (if ever) available in the U.S.

I have 3 Grammostolas,
1 Pulchra, 1 Iheringi and 1 Grossa

 

[ass0mbracao]

Pulchra

Pulchra is favorites of all. for that i'm reading.

 

[nowhereman]

Pulchra is favorites of all. for that i'm reading.

One of ours. Your sling looks very healthy from your pictures. Nice shots.

 

[Pheonixx]

are you feeding those "other" crickets again? LOL ;P :}

 

[delta]

lol no.. her first cricket since two weeks, maybe she was thinking its my hand

 

[ass0mbracao]

hi all, i'm very happy....my Brazilian Black do molt .

 

[rosehaired1979]

Cool i think my little juv is about to go into premoult soon as well

 

[Bearo]

I was just as chocked as you when mine molted a month ago

 

[Malkavian]

So today my pulchra decides to do something different, so i photographed it! If it's hard to tell he's got about 3 or 4 crickets in a ball and had laid down some silk to hold them together..very interesting process to watch, and i'd never seen him do it before!

 

[BlkCat]

Glutton :}

 

[Dark Raptor]

My Brachypelma albopilosum do the same thing when I give her more than 1 cricket.

 

[Washout]

Looks like my A. seemani. Out of all my T's it's the only one that does this.

 

[NoS]

My Rose did it when I first got her. She only did 2 like that though. She must have been starving.

The best was when I put a Superworm in with her. The worm Burrowed down in the substrate and the Rose found her and dug it out.

 

[Malkavian]

Strangely enough my seemanni doesnt do this, it just drags the whole glob down into its burrow

 

[AlanMM]

And here the "12 cricket Parahybana"

 

[Malkavian]

Holy crap! Did it put all that silk down just for the meal?

 

[AlanMM]

No, this parahybana just likes to web a lot.
But it defenitly needed to lay some web down to hold the ball together...
Indeed very interesting to watch.